The Task
Gerhard Ter Steegen
Phil. iii.7
To learn, and yet to learn, whilst life goes by,
So pass the student's days;
And thus be great, and do great things, and die,
And lie embalmed with praise.
My work is but to lose and to forget,
Thus small, despised to be;
All to unlearn -- this task before me set;
Unlearn all else but Thee.